Edward Abbey Quotes About Sports

• La función del fútbol, el baloncesto y otros deportes pasionales en la sociedad industrial moderna es la transferencia del aburrimiento, la frustración, la ira y la rabia a formas de combate socialmente aceptables. Un sustituto temporal de la guerra, del nacionalismo, de la identificación con algo más grande que uno mismo.

  Edward Abbey

  Baloncesto, Fútbol, Deportes

• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Butterfly, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.34, RosettaBooks.

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